There are many foods that pepper crabs can eat, such as water plants, algae, fish, shrimp, fish and insects, and various types of corrosive plants and animals.

Pepper crabs are omnivores, and food can be chosen from feeds such as plump shrimp eggs, snail and mussel meat, and red worms. Feeding food to grind into powdered fish feed, green algae, boiled eggs, shrimp food, earthworm mud, the above food are mini pepper crabs love to eat. In addition, they also like to eat a variety of vegetables, fruits and meat. When feeding, you can feed them 1 time in the morning and 1 time in the evening every day.

Chili crabs have the function of "scavenger", it can eat the leftover food scraps of other aquarium pets, or eat algae, and also prey on the tank parasites - whirlpool worms. Therefore, it is not necessary to feed "crab food" specifically, pepper crabs can live in the tank for this reason.

Chili crabs don't require much food, but they are sensitive to water quality, so it's best to clean up the food residue after it finishes eating. And the chili crab will also eat carrion from the substrate, but not too much.

Keeping Pepper Crab

Pepper crab is small in size, so when keeping it, you need to control the water depth at about 13 centimeters and lay sand or stones on the bottom of the tank. When keeping chili crabs, it is best not to use fresh water to keep, you can properly blend a little sea salt in the water.